The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1182 - How All Of Our Core Institutions Lit Their Own Credibility On Fire

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, Hunter Biden will not be facing any prison time for any of his

00:00:04.020 numerous federal crimes. This is just the latest proof that the justice system effectively no

00:00:07.780 longer exists in this country. In fact, all of our major institutions have destroyed themselves

00:00:11.680 from within, which is why Americans are losing trust in our institutions at a record rate.

00:00:15.820 We'll talk about all that today. Also, an activist judge swoops in to save the day for 1.00

00:00:19.700 trans activists yet again, this time declaring that a law in Arkansas banning child mutilation

00:00:24.200 is unconstitutional. Plus, five people on a small submersible go missing on a mission to

00:00:29.240 survey the wreckage of the Titanic. For some reason, lots of people on social media are

00:00:33.220 happy about the misfortunes of these adventurers. Why? We'll talk about that. And in our daily

00:00:37.500 cancellation, an author pulls her own book from publication because it offended the peanut 0.98

00:00:41.660 gallery for the dumbest reason imaginable. We'll talk about all that and more today on The Matt

00:00:46.100 Walsh Show.

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00:01:41.580 One thing the Biden administration wants you to know is that it takes enforcing the law very

00:01:46.040 seriously. It is a defender of the rule of law, we are told. And it's especially devoted to the law

00:01:51.440 when it comes to gun crime, supposedly. This is something that Biden takes very seriously. In

00:01:55.760 fact, Biden's DOJ proudly promotes its handling of gun cases on its website as part of a much

00:02:00.320 larger initiative, which is supposedly intended to combat gun violence. They want you to believe

00:02:04.560 that lying on federal gun forums is a very serious crime. That's why earlier this year, the ATF put

00:02:09.660 out a statement entitled, Federal Prosecutors Aggressively Pursuing Those Who Lie in Connection

00:02:14.140 with Firearm Transactions. It's also why a few weeks ago, Democrats in Congress held hearings

00:02:18.680 featuring anti-gun activists like Rob Wilcox. And that hearing was derailed, though, when a

00:02:24.160 congressman asked Wilcox a simple and obvious question. Why isn't Hunter Biden going to prison

00:02:30.220 given that he lied on a federal form about his drug use and his Navy discharge to obtain a

00:02:35.140 firearm? Democrats in the hearing room didn't like that question very much. Watch.

00:02:39.180 If a person lies on Form 4473 and is a user of unlawful drugs, you can get between five to ten

00:02:49.460 years for that. Is that correct? Is that my understanding? No, I believe Congress changed

00:02:54.660 the sentence last Congress. What is that sentence now? Up to 15. Up to 15 years. Why hasn't Hunter

00:03:02.200 Biden been prosecuted for the crime that he committed? I'm not aware of the facts of that case and can't

00:03:07.820 comment on it. Okay. Who do we talk to to see why this case is not being prosecuted? I mean,

00:03:14.600 he said very clearly in his book that he used drugs. He had a gun, a gun, at least a gun. Point of

00:03:21.140 order, Mr. Chairman. State your point of order. Totally irrelevant and not germane to this proceeding.

00:03:27.780 Sir, he's got his five minutes. Go ahead. Continue. He's been in court a while. Okay.

00:03:32.780 I understand why you do not want Mr. Wilcox to answer that question. It's very clear why you don't

00:03:41.260 want, because there's a dual system of justice in America. That's what's going on right now.

00:03:46.000 And everybody's talking about it across America. There's two standards of justice that are going on.

00:03:52.120 Two standards of justice, he says. And well, he was proven right, of course. By now,

00:03:58.800 you've probably heard how the Biden DOJ managed to square this circle. Yesterday, after a five-year

00:04:04.200 criminal investigation, the DOJ announced that unlike Ray and Juan and Eddie, Hunter will not

00:04:10.440 go to prison for a year for lying on a federal gun form. In fact, he won't even spend a day in prison.

00:04:15.360 Instead, Hunter Biden will go into a diversion program. And that's remarkable, not just because

00:04:20.620 it's an obviously unfair result, but also because diversion programs like that, according to the

00:04:25.540 DOJ's own guidelines, are unavailable to any defendant who has ever brandished a firearm while

00:04:31.020 committing a felony. And as National Review has reported, publicly available videos from Hunter

00:04:36.620 Biden's laptop, quote, show him brandishing the weapon while high on crack cocaine, which is also a

00:04:41.660 felony. Needless to say, Hunter Biden was never charged with brandishing his firearm or smoking crack.

00:04:47.480 He also wasn't charged with reckless endangerment after his handgun wound up in a trash bin across

00:04:52.340 the street from a high school, even though that seems like a pretty big public safety risk.

00:04:56.900 Senator Mike Lee noted that prosecutors could have easily brought these cases and probably many

00:05:01.140 others, quote, evidence supported other charges that would have rendered him presumptively ineligible

00:05:05.800 for diversion. But the DOJ buried all of that. The DOJ also let Hunter Biden off the took on tax

00:05:12.340 evasion. He's getting no jail time for failing to pay taxes for two years. Several former assistant

00:05:18.120 U.S. attorneys, including Andrew Weissman and Renato Mariotti, think that all this checks out.

00:05:23.660 Quote, these charges are rarely brought, Mariotti wrote on Twitter yesterday. He said, he added,

00:05:27.700 quote, if anything, it looks like Hunter Biden received harsh treatment.

00:05:31.940 Well, it took all of like five minutes for journalist Mike Cernovich to debunk that by citing Renato

00:05:36.220 Mariotti's own work, including the time Mariotti pursued a five-year prison sentence for

00:05:40.780 defendants who failed to pay taxes on less than $2 million in income. And that was not an unusual

00:05:46.560 case. The typical sentence for tax fraud offenders, according to the DOJ's own statistics,

00:05:50.580 is over 16 months in prison. And these are often people who, unlike Hunter Biden, didn't abuse the

00:05:55.820 public's trust by selling a politician's influence overseas. Now, we're not going to spend any more

00:06:01.580 time on the hypocrisy that's on display in Hunter Biden's case. We're not going to go into how,

00:06:05.600 on his first day in office, Joe Biden put a law partner of Hunter Biden's defense attorney

00:06:09.960 in charge of the criminal division of the DOJ. We could spend all day talking about stuff like

00:06:15.060 that. The special treatment couldn't be more obvious. So there's no point belaboring it like

00:06:20.160 we all see it. What's interesting, what's really interesting, though, is that if you dig a little

00:06:24.160 deeper, the story is much bigger than Hunter Biden. And indeed, it's much bigger than politics.

00:06:29.840 And if you doubt that, watch this report from ABC's top Washington correspondent. Pay close attention

00:06:34.400 to how the reporter contradicts himself in real time, apparently without realizing it. Watch.

00:06:40.500 These issues of conflict of interest and playing off his name and the Biden family name

00:06:44.920 will be investigated by Congress, by Republicans in Congress. And the issue is not going away.

00:06:52.740 But doesn't this show, Carl, that Biden is not in the pocket of the DOJ? I mean,

00:06:59.120 Yes. And again, it depends on. So how do you look at it? Do you look at it and you say,

00:07:02.440 look, they prosecuted anyway. His son now has a criminal record. Yes, that shows that it would

00:07:08.180 seem to show there was no interference. He didn't pull the plug on the investigation. He didn't order

00:07:12.420 his attorney general to pull the plug on the investigation. But what Republicans will say

00:07:16.480 is that this didn't look at the bigger, more serious allegations. There are significant concerns

00:07:21.860 about Hunter Biden's business dealings. You know, he has the contract that he had with the Ukrainian

00:07:28.280 energy company, also his business dealings in China. I mean, one of the details that we reported

00:07:33.220 earlier they were looking into that's just so strange. He was given, Hunter Biden was given

00:07:38.280 a 2.8 carat diamond from a Chinese business associate. I mean, what's it all about? We don't,

00:07:46.480 no. Now, if you can filter out the dumb talking points from The View lady about how all this 0.98

00:07:52.000 totally vindicates the DOJ, then that's actually a fascinating clip. The senior Washington correspondent 0.77

00:07:57.160 at ABC News begins by explaining that there's no evidence whatsoever that the Biden family is

00:08:02.000 corrupt. But he ends the segment by admitting there's something fishy about that fat diamond

00:08:06.440 that somehow found its way from China into Hunter Biden's possession. Later, he goes on to concede

00:08:11.240 that it's weird that Biden was making tens of thousands of dollars a month for a no-show job

00:08:15.260 at a Ukrainian energy company and selling his paintings for ludicrous sums of money to unknown

00:08:20.020 foreign buyers, etc. Now, put aside whatever you think of the politics of all this. Maybe you love

00:08:24.800 Hunter Biden for some reason. I don't know. Ask yourself this, though. What's the effect on millions

00:08:29.420 of Americans watching a news report as incoherent and poorly conceived as that one? It's not just

00:08:35.040 fraudulent reporting. It's obviously fraudulent reporting. Even if you're a diehard Democrat,

00:08:40.600 that has to resonate with you for the wrong reasons. It's not just that the DOJ is cutting

00:08:44.560 the president's son a break. What we're seeing, what's now undeniable, is that the media apparently

00:08:49.340 is so inept that they can't even lie about it properly. Even ABC's highest-ranking correspondent

00:08:54.380 in Washington just can't pull it off to save his life. This gets to a much broader issue,

00:08:59.800 which is a lot bigger than Hunter Biden. And that issue is the level of trust Americans have

00:09:04.240 in the core institutions of this country. Every poll shows that the trust is plummeting,

00:09:10.280 and it's not hard to see why. Everywhere you look, you're being subjected to propaganda that

00:09:14.600 would make North Korean state media blush. They're treating you like you're a complete idiot. It's 1.00

00:09:19.340 relentless. And just hours after the DOJ announced that Hunter Biden won't face any punishment for

00:09:24.840 violating federal law, numerous federal laws, the Pentagon revealed that yet another accounting error

00:09:30.620 means that we get to spend $6 billion more in Ukraine because of an accounting error. Imagine

00:09:37.880 that. And on top of that, also on the very same day that the DOJ announced Hunter Biden wouldn't go to

00:09:43.200 prison, we learned that the plan is to put Donald Trump on trial prior to the 2024 election. How is CNN

00:09:49.980 covering that? Well, they ran this headline, quote, another historic week in the investigation and

00:09:54.280 prosecution of Donald Trump. Contrast that with another CNN headline from this week on the same kind of

00:10:00.180 prosecution happening in Russia, quote, Russian opposition leader faces decades behind bar as new

00:10:05.420 trial starts. Translation, it's good when we throw our opposition leaders in jail. It's bad when Russia 0.95

00:10:11.720 does it. Well, if it's hard to believe that anyone's falling for this anymore, that's because no one is

00:10:17.000 falling for it anymore, or at least very few people. Every major institution in this country now flaunts the

00:10:22.920 norms they pretended for so long to care about. And that matters because the quote unquote

00:10:27.960 democratic system that the left pretends to deeply cherish doesn't work if the people lose all trust

00:10:35.400 and faith in the system itself. If nobody believes any of this or believes in any of this, it all falls

00:10:42.840 apart. People notice when the authorities imprison good Samaritans like Daniel Penny, even as arsonists and

00:10:50.480 rapists go free. They notice when the DOJ sends a SWAT team to raid the home of a father who protected

00:10:56.240 his child from an abortion clinic volunteer while totally failing to investigate attacks on Christian

00:11:00.680 pregnancy centers. Breakdowns and trust often begin in the political world in response to obvious 0.99

00:11:06.960 hypocrisy like this, but the harm transcends the political world very quickly. Pretty soon you have

00:11:12.520 no norms left of any kind whatsoever. For years we've been witnessing in slow motion the destruction of

00:11:19.020 any integrity in the fields of medicine and public health. And this week, very publicly, it came to a head.

00:11:25.180 Now we're told that vaccine scientists shouldn't debase themselves by debating skeptics on Joe Rogan's

00:11:31.040 podcasts. You know, you have guys like Tom Nichols and others, people in the establishment media, they've been

00:11:36.620 arguing for days that the credibility of the medical field would be diminished if experts engaged in these kinds of

00:11:43.040 spectacles, started to lowering themselves to the point of debating non-experts on podcasts.

00:11:50.280 But the medical field's credibility is already diminished to the point of non-existence.

00:11:55.060 Like nobody trusts it anymore. That's what happens when you forcibly inject the drug into millions of

00:12:00.880 people's bodies while lying about its efficacy. And when you castrate and sterilize children while claiming

00:12:06.360 that it's a life-saving procedure. It's what happens when the entire medical field solemnly declares out of

00:12:12.560 nowhere that men can get pregnant. The guy who's refusing to debate RFK Jr. on Joe Rogan's podcast

00:12:19.780 is named Peter Hotez. He's supposedly a preeminent vaccine expert, the media tells us. But on every

00:12:24.440 major issue concerning vaccines and COVID over the past two years, Hotez hasn't just been wrong, 0.98

00:12:29.680 he's been crazy. In April of 2021, for example, he wrote in Nature magazine that anti-vaccine groups

00:12:36.720 in the United States are linked to Russia and need to be shut down. Quote,

00:12:40.360 the United Nations and the highest levels of government must take direct, even confrontational

00:12:44.880 approaches with Russia and move to dismantle anti-vaccine groups in the United States.

00:12:50.900 And back in June of 2020, Hotez appeared on MSNBC to explain why it's okay to protest for BLM in the

00:12:57.520 middle of a pandemic. He said, quote, it's not so simple to just say that protests will bring back

00:13:02.380 COVID. He said he added that, quote, structural racism causes three times higher COVID-19 death

00:13:07.860 rates in the African-American population. Hotez wasn't the only scientist to say that at the time.

00:13:14.340 Dozens of public health experts agreed. Jennifer Nuzo, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist,

00:13:20.500 wrote that, quote, in this moment, the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end

00:13:25.320 to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus. Abrar Karan, a physician at Brigham and

00:13:31.500 Women's Hospital, wrote, quote, while I have voiced concerns that protests risk creating more outbreaks,

00:13:37.380 the status quo wasn't going to stop COVID-19 either. Americans remember all of this. They remember

00:13:42.880 when the Biden administration nationalized all of America's rental properties in the name of public

00:13:48.340 health. They remember the demands that we wear cloth masks and airplanes and that our children wear

00:13:54.120 masks for eight hours in school every day, even after everyone admitted that cloth masks don't do

00:13:59.240 anything. And it's precisely because Americans remember all of this that they won't want Peter

00:14:04.100 Hotez going anywhere near an actual debate. He can go on MSNBC where it's safe. On MSNBC, he can talk

00:14:11.200 about how protesting lockdowns is bad while protesting the police is good. No one's going to challenge him

00:14:16.880 there. What's important to recognize is that Peter Hotez is a symptom of a much larger institutional

00:14:21.720 rot, which is now being reinforced by virtually every major medical school in this country.

00:14:27.860 Last year, Wake Forest defended a medical student who admitted to stabbing a patient for mocking her

00:14:33.540 pronoun pen. They didn't expel her. In fact, she's going to graduate soon. And Wake Forest is not the

00:14:40.280 exception. Here's what medical school looks and sounds like these days. Listen to this.

00:14:44.260 We enter the profession of medicine with appreciation for the opportunity to build on the scientific and

00:14:52.360 humanistic achievements of the past. We also recognize the acts and systems of oppression

00:14:58.340 affected in the name of medicine. We take this oath of service to begin building a future grounded in

00:15:05.400 truth, restoration, and equity to fulfill medicine's capacity to liberate. I promise to take care of my future

00:15:13.620 patients by engaging in dialogue, listening to their lived experience, and tailoring my recommendations

00:15:20.080 to their unique circumstances. I acknowledge the past and present failures of medicine to abide by its

00:15:27.660 obligation to do no harm and affirm the need to address systemic issues in the institutions I uphold.

00:15:35.060 I promise to critically examine the systems and experiences that impact every person's health

00:15:40.940 and ability to receive care. It's medical school for you. Makes you feel very good if you're going

00:15:47.600 into surgery, you know, this week or something. Doctors are taking these Maoist oaths because they

00:15:53.120 now believe ideology is more important than patient care. Every day they abandon another scientific

00:15:57.700 principle on the altar of wokeism, no matter what effect it has on the patients. Here's the latest

00:16:03.460 example. Now the American Medical Association is telling doctors that body mass index, or BMI,

00:16:09.380 is a racist concept. You know, it's racist to tell people about BMI or tell them to keep their BMI

00:16:16.700 done. That's going to cause a lot of deaths from diseases like hypertension and diabetes, but they

00:16:20.660 don't care. Again, the public isn't stupid. People have noticed all this. It's why they don't trust the 0.87

00:16:25.860 medical field anymore. It's why they don't trust the justice system. It's why they don't trust academia,

00:16:31.520 the media, the government. Trust in our fundamental institutions has never been lower. And it's all

00:16:38.520 the fault not of conspiracy theorists, but of the actual actions of these institutions themselves.

00:16:45.780 If civilization starts coming apart at the seams, it's not going to be because of alleged conspiracy

00:16:51.840 theorists like Alex Jones or whoever. It'll be because of the people and institutions that made the

00:16:57.780 conspiracy theorists right about nearly everything. Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:18:00.300 Okay, we'll start with some unfortunate news, some bad news from Daily Wire. A federal judge

00:18:06.100 struck down an Arkansas ban on sex change surgeries and treatments for minors

00:18:11.420 as unconstitutional on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Jay Moody issued the ruling permanently blocking the law,

00:18:18.140 which would have forbidden doctors from providing hormones, puberty blockers,

00:18:21.280 and sex change surgeries for minors after temporarily blocking it in 2021.

00:18:26.540 Quote, this is from the Obama appointed judge. He wrote in his opinion,

00:18:31.240 rather than protecting children or safeguarding medical ethics, the evidence showed that the

00:18:35.180 prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients and that by

00:18:39.720 prohibiting it, the state undermined the interests it claims to be advancing.

00:18:44.660 Moody's scientific claim stands in sharp contrast to many medical journals that warn of the dangers of

00:18:49.340 sub-treatments and provide little evidence of benefits to minors, as was highlighted in a recent hearing

00:18:54.060 in the House subcommittee on health. But this is what Moody is arguing. He says that, he just asserts that

00:19:03.140 this quote-unquote medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients.

00:19:08.520 It's not that there's little evidence to support that. There is no evidence to support that. The evidence

00:19:15.880 does not exist. He's inventing this. Another activist judge who comes in to save the day for the trans 1.00

00:19:24.680 activists yet again. And this is what the trans activists need. They need the judges to step in. 0.64

00:19:30.400 They need to be bailed out by the courts over and over again because they're losing.

00:19:35.060 Otherwise, they're losing in the state legislatures. They're losing in the court of public opinion.

00:19:42.760 Okay, they're losing in the culture because people are waking up to the insanity of all of this.

00:19:49.540 So they're losing everywhere and then they can turn to the courts. And what that means is that

00:19:55.920 ultimately, this is going to end up in the Supreme Court. And it's a question of, now it's become a

00:20:01.100 question of the Constitution, of interpreting the Constitution. This activist judge said it's a

00:20:06.340 constitutional right. Of course, the question as always is, whose constitutional right is it?

00:20:13.580 Is it, it's the constitutional right of a child to be sterilized without his consent? Because a child

00:20:21.600 cannot consent? Well, that doesn't make any sense. So whose constitutional right is it?

00:20:27.960 I mean, what he's actually asserting, once again, is that it's the constitutional right of the butchers.

00:20:34.200 They're the ones who are doing the thing. So what he's really saying is that doctors have a

00:20:40.060 constitutional right to sterilize and castrate children for profit. That's what he's actually

00:20:45.160 saying. And that is a claim that, of course, does not stand up to scrutiny. And I don't think it's

00:20:51.120 going to stand up in the Supreme Court either, which again, is where this is inevitably headed.

00:20:59.140 And that's, that's a point that I want trans activists to hear and to understand.

00:21:05.960 Like, if you're a trans activist, I want you to hear this. I know you like to gloat 1.00

00:21:09.740 every time a degenerate activist judge bails you out. Because again, that's all you have.

00:21:16.180 You cannot win anywhere. You cannot win in any forum where there's actual debate and evidence is

00:21:28.200 presented. You cannot win there. So you just need a judge. You need your hero in a cloak,

00:21:34.860 in a black robe to come along and say, yep, never mind. Forget all that.

00:21:38.460 You can't win anywhere else. That's all you have. You have judges and then you have big tech platforms

00:21:45.960 stopping people from talking. If people are allowed to simply talk about this openly and honestly,

00:21:54.620 you lose and you know it. And that's why in the end, like ultimately, you will lose. This is,

00:22:04.640 this is, it's not sustainable for you. You will lose in court. Ultimately, you will lose in the

00:22:09.360 state houses. You'll lose everywhere and you'll lose everything. Your position, the claims that you

00:22:15.500 are making are indefensible. They are insane. They're totally laughably absurd, deranged morally and

00:22:24.080 intellectually. Like everything you believe and claim, it's all grotesque and stupid and crazy. 1.00

00:22:31.840 Everything about your worldview and your view of yourself is wrong and demented and doomed to 1.00

00:22:39.320 failure. History will look back on you, uh, with, with, with disgust and disbelief. 0.85

00:22:48.640 Like everything you're doing and saying right now, it's so crazy and stupid that people won't even 1.00

00:22:53.780 be able to believe that this was real. There's going to be a debate in the future about whether any of 0.99

00:23:00.500 this even happened. Okay. There are going to be people a hundred years from now who say that that

00:23:05.880 didn't happen. What do you mean? In the early 21st century, people thought that men could have

00:23:10.580 babies and they were castrating little boys to turn them into girls. I don't know. That didn't even 0.99

00:23:15.320 happen. That's an actual point of view that will exist in the future. Like what you're defending is

00:23:22.160 so crazy that people in the future won't even believe it happened. And as for you personally,

00:23:27.060 you will die as we all will, but you'll be forgotten. Um, you'll leave behind no bloodline, 0.99

00:23:33.980 no legacy, no one who loves or cares about you. You'll be forgotten. Uh, the movement that you

00:23:43.420 are a part of though will be remembered. It'll be remembered as, as one of the most insane and

00:23:52.260 disgraceful chapters in the history of human existence. And you should really know that.

00:23:57.200 I want you to know that generations of people forever, I mean, the ones who, who can even bring

00:24:02.680 themselves to believe that you even, that you, that any of this ever happened, they will be laughing at

00:24:08.700 you. Like for thousands of years, people will be laughing at you. And I think that, you know,

00:24:15.800 that deep down, you know, that because you know, it's all a lie. Everything you say, everything you

00:24:20.580 whisper to yourself in the mirror in the morning, you know, it's all a lie. I know, you know, it's

00:24:26.140 all a lie. And that's because that's why you're so desperate to stop people from saying what I'm

00:24:29.040 saying right now. If you had any confidence in your beliefs whatsoever, you wouldn't be going to

00:24:35.760 every platform in existence and say, stop him from saying this. You can't stand to hear it because

00:24:41.900 you know, it's true. So that's where this is headed for you. But in the meantime, congratulations.

00:24:47.660 You got your one little temporary victory there. Related story here that I wanted to play. CBS ran a

00:24:52.860 puff piece about an abusive mother who transed her young son. And let's watch a little bit of this.

00:24:59.700 Meet Ava, an exuberant, happy nine-year-old. Perhaps it's a bit mind bending to learn that she was born

00:25:12.700 by all appearances, a boy. Even before she could talk, she gravitated towards all the girly toys and

00:25:20.020 colors. And when she could talk, she would say, I wish I was a girl. Her parents admit it was hard to

00:25:30.220 process. Their then son begging in tears to wear a dress. I feel like I'm an open-minded person. But

00:25:39.160 when it's like your son, you know, asking you to do this, you know, and I think I wasn't thinking about

00:25:48.160 her feelings at the time. I was just thinking about how are people going to react to it. You were afraid,

00:25:57.220 a little bit afraid for her. Yeah, and I still am afraid for her. But the North Carolina family who

00:26:03.160 asked that we not use their name has learned to embrace a change they never saw coming. You know,

00:26:09.960 if we continued to say no, you have to live as a boy, she would continue, you know, she's young. I'm

00:26:17.160 sure she would have done it, but like we didn't want to be her first bully. We wanted to support her.

00:26:24.160 You like fashion? Yes. What do you like about it? Just the way you can express yourself with it

00:26:30.300 and how creative you can be with it. And so Ava became Ava in the second grade.

00:26:37.100 She had to walk into her classroom and identify that, you know, she had a new name and pronouns,

00:26:42.780 and she was so excited. It was like Christmas. Your mom told me a really interesting story about

00:26:49.100 when you were in the second grade and you introduced your friends to Ava. How was that?

00:26:57.180 It went well. They didn't treat me any different. So now, are you who you think you should be?

00:27:03.180 Yeah. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. And that would be Ava? Yeah. Okay, a few things here.

00:27:10.060 First of all, this boy is clearly not nearly as excited about his false female identity as his 0.92

00:27:15.180 parents are and as that weirdo journalist is. Remember what I always say, you know, when it comes to these,

00:27:21.260 to these very young, quote unquote, trans kids, every story is exactly the same. I mean,

00:27:26.780 you could swap this out with a hundred other puff pieces about other, quote unquote, trans kids,

00:27:32.220 and you wouldn't notice a difference. It's the same story over and over again. You have the helpless,

00:27:36.140 innocent kid who's led down this path, forced into an identity crisis. We're told that he chose it,

00:27:40.700 but he chose it when he was a toddler, babbling about how he's the opposite sex. He was a very young

00:27:46.220 child saying incoherent and meaningless things as all young children do. And his parents seized on

00:27:53.500 that and used it as an excuse to turn him into this. And then you have the parents, you have the

00:27:58.380 father who's either, you know, it's always the same. The father's either physically absent

00:28:02.940 or physically present, but absent in every other respect. And so here you have a physically present

00:28:09.260 father who's like barely, barely even exists. He's this meek, cowering shell of a man practically

00:28:17.340 collapsing in on himself in front of us, sitting there stammering, barely speaking above a whisper, 0.98

00:28:25.180 this spineless sack of jelly, his wife literally telling him how he feels. You were scared, honey. You

00:28:33.420 were scared. Yes, I was. I was scared. Yes, that's how I felt. How else do I feel?

00:28:41.340 And then the mom who's really orchestrating all of this, as always the mom who hates men, hates boys. 0.99

00:28:46.140 So she turned her son into a girl, the Munchausen mommy who projects her mental sickness onto her kid, 0.93

00:28:53.580 doing it on the flimsiest basis, the same basis they always have. He wore pink. He played with Barbies.

00:28:59.660 She is ruthlessly enforcing the most rigid gender stereotypes by insisting that any boy 1.00

00:29:06.380 who defies the stereotype must really be a girl. She forces her son into a female identity because 1.00

00:29:11.740 the notion that he might be a boy with more stereotypically feminine interests is apparently

00:29:17.100 unthinkable to her. She can't even imagine. It's impossible. Not that you could even call playing

00:29:22.860 with dolls or, you know, whatever, wearing pink. You couldn't even call that a feminine interest for a 0.95

00:29:28.380 four-year-old. It's not any kind of interest at all, feminine or masculine. It's just, it's a four-year-old

00:29:33.660 being a four-year-old, being curious, being silly, being confused, whatever. It has no deeper 0.58

00:29:37.580 significance than that. 98% of everything a four-year-old says has no deeper significance.

00:29:44.940 Like it's like, it barely means anything. Kids that age will frequently insist that they want to do

00:29:49.420 things that they don't even really want to do. My daughter is three and a half. You know, she'll go,

00:29:55.100 daddy, I want to play outside. And then I'll say, okay, let's go outside. As soon as we get outside,

00:29:58.700 I don't want to play outside. I want to go inside. Like that kind of thing over that's,

00:30:02.540 that's a three or four-year-old over and over again. That's your life, right? Raising a three

00:30:07.060 or four-year-old. It's that over and over and over again. And yet that confusion is taken and exploited.

00:30:14.560 And that's the story that we see. And it's always the same story.

00:30:20.720 And it's always tragic. Speaking of tragedies, Daily Wire has this. As time runs out for the

00:30:26.160 passengers on the Titan submersible that went looking deep into the sea for the wreckage of

00:30:30.300 the Titanic, a last-ditch effort involving heavy machinery and submarines arrived in Newfoundland

00:30:35.480 on Tuesday night. Three C-17 aircraft from the US Air Force reportedly landed at a cargo terminal

00:30:41.400 in St. John's carrying unmanned vehicles capable of going 19,000 feet underwater,

00:30:46.660 as well as two heavy-duty Hyundai winches emblazoned a huge roll of cable and two large

00:30:53.880 machines that set high voltage on their sides, according to Daily Mail. A forklift truck loaded

00:30:59.260 the equipment onto six flatbed trucks. The equipment was taken to a port where a ship dubbed the Horizon

00:31:04.800 Arctic was scheduled to leave at midnight, although the journey to the area where the Titan is submerged

00:31:08.900 would take 15 hours. The Titan may be as deep as 12,000 feet below the surface, and it's sitting

00:31:17.580 down there, as far as we know, on the surface, maybe not far from the wreck of the Titanic.

00:31:23.060 Late Tuesday night, banging sounds were reported coming in 30-minute intervals near where the Titan

00:31:27.780 went missing with its passengers. And if you've been following this story, then you already know what

00:31:33.940 led up to this. You have this company, Ocean Gate, where this submersible, very small submersible,

00:31:42.280 about the size of a minivan, that goes down to survey the wreckage of the Titanic, which is

00:31:47.560 like 12,500 feet below the surface. And they went down several days ago and lost touch with the people

00:31:57.460 on the surface about an hour and a half into the plunge, and they haven't been heard from yet.

00:32:06.360 And this article continues, another concern regarding the passengers comes from the fact

00:32:10.400 that a 2022 report by CBS correspondent David Pogue said the Titan's hatch is sealed by an external

00:32:16.100 crew with 17 bolts, so they cannot open the hatch from the inside. Well, that's one, you know,

00:32:20.140 I don't understand why people are making a big deal about that fact. There are a lot of interesting

00:32:23.360 facts about the submersible, and one of the things people are talking about is that, well,

00:32:27.700 it's sealed from the outside, so they can't get out. They can't open it. I don't really understand

00:32:32.080 why that's relevant here, because they're at the bottom of the ocean, so it's not like opening the

00:32:37.120 hatch would be an option anyway. But either way, I find this whole story fascinating. I mean, just

00:32:43.160 thinking about the depths of the ocean, a place where almost no human being has ever been, a place we know

00:32:48.280 very little about. We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the ocean floor. And then

00:32:53.480 to think that there are people potentially trapped, I say potentially because it's possible the thing

00:32:57.860 imploded on the way down, and they're all dead now, but the idea that there are potentially human

00:33:02.100 beings living and trapped down there is, it's like, I mean, it's viscerally terrifying. It plays on every

00:33:10.240 major human fear simultaneously, and it's also fascinating. And it's also been depressing at the same

00:33:17.960 time to see the reaction from the public to all of this, at least on social media, where people have

00:33:24.500 just been like outwardly contemptuous, scornful, openly hating these guys who are on the submarine,

00:33:34.760 laughing at their demise or their impending demise. And it's really bizarre to me. What did these people

00:33:43.000 do to you? What do you have against them? I've just seen these reactions from people on social media,

00:33:47.280 even people that I know, who at least I'm familiar with and I have respect for, and seeing the way

00:33:53.040 they're reacting to it. What exactly do you have against them? What did they do to you? Why are you

00:33:58.780 happy that they're going to die? Potentially one of the most horrific and nightmarish deaths

00:34:05.760 imaginable. Now, sure, we've all seen videos by now of the guy who owns the submersible talking about

00:34:13.400 the corners that they cut and making it. You've probably seen this video, but let's play it again.

00:34:19.160 An experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body

00:34:24.180 and could result in physical injury, disability, emotional trauma, or death.

00:34:29.560 Where do I sign?

00:34:30.460 Take your shoes off. That's customary. Okay. Wow. Inside, the sub has about as much room as a

00:34:41.460 minivan. So this is not your grandfather's submersible. We only have one button. That's

00:34:46.320 it. It should be like an elevator. You know, it shouldn't take a lot of skill.

00:34:50.600 The Titan is the only five-person sub in the world that can reach titanic depths 2.4 miles below

00:34:57.460 the sea. It's also the only one with a toilet. Sort of. And yet, I couldn't help noticing how many

00:35:04.340 pieces of this sub seemed improvised. We can use these off-the-shelf components.

00:35:09.720 I got these from Camper World. We run the whole thing with this game controller.

00:35:16.000 Come on! Okay, so these people got into that tiny metal can piloted with an Xbox controller,

00:35:21.540 and they went 12,000 feet under the sea to the wreck of the Titanic, down at a depth where almost no

00:35:26.160 other human being has ever physically been. And for this reason, people on social media,

00:35:32.340 the peanut gallery, seem to hate them. They're openly laughing at their misfortune, especially

00:35:35.960 because the people in the submersible are rich. You know, these are rich people. There's a couple

00:35:40.680 of billionaires down there, and I've seen a lot of that on the internet. Ah, stupid rich people. 1.00

00:35:45.480 I'm glad they're all going to drown. But I just don't get this reaction, I have to tell you. I don't 1.00

00:35:50.380 understand it. It doesn't resonate with me. I go very much the other way. I instinctively have a

00:35:56.480 lot of respect for people who do daring, dangerous, even arguably suicidal things for the sake of

00:36:02.380 exploration and discovery. I respect that. I wouldn't do it myself, but I respect that the

00:36:07.940 world needs people like that. And don't tell me that, oh, it's not exploration. It's just rich people

00:36:13.540 on vacation. Stop that. Okay, they're going to a place where almost no other human being has ever

00:36:19.420 been. They're going to the bottom of the freaking ocean, you idiot. Yes, that's exploration. The 1.00

00:36:24.060 ocean is a mystery. The ocean is an unfathomable mystery. That's what you have to understand.

00:36:29.140 The vast majority, something like 80% of the ocean is unknown, unmapped. The deepest depths of the ocean

00:36:36.260 especially are unknown. The very deepest depths, the challenger deep as it's called, has only been

00:36:43.960 visited by three human beings ever in history. The Titanic is not at the deepest depths, but it is

00:36:50.420 two and a half miles down where very few people have ever gone. The wreck itself has been visited by

00:36:56.260 fewer than 250 people, which is a very small number of people in history.

00:37:04.360 You have never done anything in your life that only 250 people have done. You have never been

00:37:12.420 anywhere that only 250 people have been to. Never in your life, and you never will. Everywhere you've

00:37:19.960 ever been in your life, every part of the globe that you have traversed has been visited and seen

00:37:26.660 by millions of people. Every time you go on vacation, no matter where you're going, you're going to a place

00:37:32.520 that millions of people have been here and know all about it. They've taken pictures, and it's on

00:37:35.860 Facebook and everything. So you have no idea what it's like to go to a place where in the entire

00:37:42.580 history of humanity, the total number of visitors could fit into a small auditorium.

00:37:48.580 That is exploration, and I respect that. And especially these, I think, because people,

00:37:53.300 you know, you could ask, what would drive someone? Like, why would you want to do that in the first

00:37:59.140 place? And there's a couple answers to that. One of the answers, in history, there have always been

00:38:05.960 people like this, and we need people like this. We need people with lots of money who are eccentric

00:38:11.320 and willing to do crazy things like this. The age of discovery and exploration in history was

00:38:18.020 fueled by people like this. The world would be a much smaller place without them.

00:38:23.000 So some of that, some people are just like, this is how they're wired. And then I also think

00:38:31.580 because we live in a world where most of the surface area, at least the places where people

00:38:38.780 tend to go, are known and, you know, everywhere you go, millions of people have already been there.

00:38:46.380 And there's not a lot left to discover on the surface of the earth anyway. Because we live in

00:38:52.640 that world, I think some people just, they can't live with that. And they need to go somewhere

00:38:58.240 where other people haven't been. And again, I, even if you don't share that desire,

00:39:05.280 I think you have to respect it at least. Would I ever do it? Would I go into that? Would I sit in

00:39:10.800 that death trap and descend into the darkest depths of the ocean? Hell no, I would not. Okay. But I

00:39:18.440 respect people who are willing to do those things, especially do things that I'm too afraid to do.

00:39:24.400 And, uh, I would think that we all respect that, but apparently we don't. And I, and that's a sign

00:39:28.820 of cultural sickness. It really is like, this is actually kind of a good litmus test. 0.78

00:39:32.420 When you see people doing, uh, daring, crazy things and it goes horribly wrong and you hate them,

00:39:43.720 you know, you hate them that, and, and, and when that becomes the cultural attitude, that that's a

00:39:48.760 sign that we are sick, that we are a sick culture. So, um, there's my, uh, lecture in compassion.

00:39:58.280 You don't get that very often on this show, but you're going to get it anyway.

00:40:03.040 Uh, one other quick thing, this is from Daily Wire. President Joe Biden's monkeypox advisor,

00:40:07.380 um, appeared to defend risky sexual behavior, waving it off as simply someone's idea of a fun

00:40:12.660 Friday night during a Sunday appearance on MSNBC. Uh, Dr. Dimitri Deskalakis is a physician and gay 1.00

00:40:20.220 activist who specializes in the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

00:40:24.840 The word specializes doing a lot of work there. Uh, I'm not sure how great he is at preventing any

00:40:29.680 of that stuff, but anyway, he was on MSNBC and, uh, here's what he said.

00:40:33.660 I, I work in HIV normally and I'll tell you that, you know, I, I always say that I've never made an

00:40:38.500 HIV diagnosis in someone that hasn't somehow related to stigma. I think MPOX is the same.

00:40:43.620 So really, um, uh, stigma tends to be a barrier to testing, a barrier to vaccination. And so,

00:40:49.740 you know, really addressing stigma intentionally and making sure that we get the word out in a way

00:40:55.340 that supports people's joy as opposed to, you know, calling them risky. So I think, you know,

00:41:00.740 one of the things to think about is that, you know, one person's idea of risk is another person's

00:41:05.320 idea of a great festival or Friday night for that matter. So we have to sort of embrace that with

00:41:09.860 joy and make sure that folks know how to keep themselves safe. Joy. We got to support people's

00:41:15.660 joy. He says, yes, because when I think of AIDS and monkey pox, the first thing that comes to mind

00:41:21.020 is joy, very joyful, but he doesn't want to talk about risky sexual behavior because that might

00:41:28.360 stigmatize the dreaded stigma. And you know, this is, this is kind of a good, uh, inter interesting

00:41:34.480 segue anyway, because we just talked about, about risk and risky behavior, like getting into a

00:41:39.440 submersible, uh, and, and, and plunging two and a half miles into the ocean. Um, and, and that's

00:41:46.840 admirable risk. Okay. The risk of exploration in my thinking anyway is, is admirable. I admire that,

00:41:55.020 but then there's, there's also shameful risk. Okay. There's risk that actually should be stigmatized

00:42:02.420 and that's the risk that he's talking about. Even though he says that that's the risk we should

00:42:07.420 admire. Well, it's just fun. It's a fun time. No, this is the risk that comes from, from not being

00:42:12.480 able to control your sexual impulses. This is the risk for the risk that comes from being, um, a weak,

00:42:20.700 degenerate, um, almost animalistic sort of person who, who cannot control yourself.

00:42:29.560 That's what he's saying. Cause he is, he is, he is openly defending quote unquote risky sexual 0.96

00:42:36.100 behavior. And that's what we mean when we talk about risky sexual behavior. It means sexual behavior

00:42:39.900 where you're knowingly putting your, your, uh, yourself at risk and putting the other person at

00:42:45.600 risk. Um, so that's risk also, but that is not the admirable kind of risk. That is the risk that

00:42:51.560 should be stigmatized. Okay. If, if for the sake of, um, getting your sexual thrills,

00:42:58.240 you're willing to put yourself in physical danger and put someone else in physical danger

00:43:04.280 that should be stigmatized. That is disgraceful and disgusting. So we have it, but we, so we, we, 0.99

00:43:13.340 that is the kind of risk now in our culture that we celebrate while stigmatizing the risk, uh,

00:43:19.780 taken by explorers and discovers we have it exactly backwards as always. Let's get to the comment

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00:44:51.180 before today, we revealed the internal documents at Fox that show how leftism is in its most extreme

00:44:59.560 forms is pushed on the employees at the highest level of the company. And so we have some comments

00:45:05.040 about that. Patton for President says, you're witnessing a slow transition between Fox and

00:45:10.720 CNN. They're switching sides. CNN needs ratings. Fox is rich. They'll work something out so CNN can

00:45:15.820 stay alive. Conservatives are still without proper media representation. Well, you're definitely right

00:45:20.460 about that last point, at least in the corporate mainstream media. If you're a conservative, there is

00:45:25.540 no voice representing you in that corporate legacy media world. As far as CNN and Fox switching sides,

00:45:33.780 I wouldn't say they're switching sides at all. They're on the same side. It's not like CNN is

00:45:37.880 going conservative and Fox. That's not what's happening. It's everybody going to the left.

00:45:45.460 That's been the way the tide has been taking all of corporate media, Fox very much included.

00:45:53.120 Another comment says, I know some elderly people who only watch Fox because it's conservative and it's

00:45:58.160 on cable TV and makes great background noise. They aren't tech savvy, nor do they have energy to watch

00:46:03.460 on Twitter. I'd feel bad trying to convince them Fox is bad, but they're too old. What's your advice?

00:46:10.580 Well, I think we should be telling the truth to everybody. And there's no such thing as being

00:46:14.960 too old to understand the truth. It is what you said about background noise is very much

00:46:19.940 the case. And I've seen this myself. I think, you know, anybody with like a conservative elderly family

00:46:27.280 member, whether it's a grandparent or a parent, um, this is something that we've all seen, you know,

00:46:33.320 in, in homes of just Fox is. So Fox historically has gotten a lot of ratings, but what you understand

00:46:39.440 is that a lot of that is just TV is put on and it's just on its background noise. Um, and it's on

00:46:46.820 all the time. It's what a lot of those ratings are. Um, which is also why there isn't the same

00:46:55.640 kind of influence that comes with it. Yeah. Great ratings on Fox, but yeah, a lot of those ratings

00:47:01.160 like that's, that that's someone who's 78 years old and just has the TV on as company. Uh, but no

00:47:08.640 matter how old somebody is, I think that they should be, yeah, they should absolutely be told

00:47:11.760 the truth. And if you have an elderly family member who loves watching Fox, well, they can

00:47:17.340 make their own decision, but they should at least know that that is one of the, that's the saving

00:47:21.180 grace for Fox right now is that we have revealed, um, that Fox at the corporate level at the highest

00:47:27.820 levels, this is a, this is a company that pushes woke wokeism just as bad as any other companies do

00:47:32.760 any other media companies do, uh, in that, in that world. But the saving grace for Fox is that

00:47:39.140 many of Fox's most loyal, loyal viewers, they're not on the internet, they're not on Twitter,

00:47:44.100 they're on social media, they're not watching me. And so they're not going to hear about this,

00:47:47.740 which is why you, yes, you should be telling them.

00:47:53.660 Tell them that, yeah, you, you think that this, you know, this is a place that you can trust. You

00:47:59.040 can trust these people. Uh, but here's what, here's what's really happening behind the scenes. I think

00:48:03.340 you should tell them that definitely, uh, Kentucky Ranger says, I thought CNN was bad. Fox just took

00:48:11.720 the clear lead. Yeah, well, Fox, you're right. Fox is actually worse. Uh, Fox is worse than CNN

00:48:18.280 because there is that element of betrayal, at least with CNN, you, you know what you're getting.

00:48:25.080 Everybody who watches CNN, MSNBC, you know, really MSNBC is the least objectionable to me because

00:48:30.780 they don't even really pretend to be, uh, unbiased or impartial or anything like that.

00:48:37.520 I mean, sure, if you ask them, they'll, they'll say that this is objective, truthful reporting, but,

00:48:41.540 but really they don't, they don't make much of an attempt to pretend. So you know exactly what

00:48:45.560 you're getting when you watch, uh, MSNBC, similar thing with CNN, um, with Fox, it's just as left

00:48:51.340 wing, it's just as woke, but there's that element of dishonesty and betrayal that comes with it as well.

00:48:56.400 Uh, and this one is not about Fox, but another topic we talked about last week. Interesting take

00:49:02.060 in regards to not always explaining yourself to your children. My mom definitely didn't. And I

00:49:05.980 know how annoying it was for me who was trying to understand her reasoning. Even if I listened

00:49:10.240 regardless, I just wanted to understand her or a boss's orders. This is why I think as a parent,

00:49:17.040 there's this issue of, um, well, saying to your kid, because I told you so, you know, and there's,

00:49:22.900 there are some parents who say you should never say that to a kid. You should never say,

00:49:25.720 because I told you so. Like we all grew up hearing that from our parents. It's very traumatizing.

00:49:30.060 You shouldn't say that. If a child's asking why you should try to explain it to them. Um,

00:49:35.580 there's that kind of school of thought. And there are the parents that give that answer for everything.

00:49:40.580 And, uh, you know, as is often the case with these sorts of things, uh, the truth is, um, is,

00:49:48.640 is kind of neither of those. Uh, I think that, yeah, if you're, if your child,

00:49:53.700 it's kind of a common sense thing. If your child is asked, if you tell your child something

00:49:57.680 and they're asking why you're telling them that, and it's a sincere question because they want to

00:50:02.240 understand, then of course, you're going to try to explain it to them. You tell them not to run in

00:50:06.420 the street. And if they ask you why you're going to say, well, because there's cars in the street

00:50:09.960 and you can get hit and you want them to understand why it's good that they're asking why, because

00:50:13.660 they're inquisitive. And you also want them to understand the why if you can. But then what kids will do

00:50:19.380 is they'll, they'll keep asking why, even when they know the answer. Um, or if after you explain

00:50:25.800 why they're not willing to accept the answer and they keep asking why, and then it becomes more an

00:50:29.680 act of defiance on their part. And we know that because we were all kids once and we played this

00:50:33.520 game too. And at that point, that's when it's important to say, because I told you so it's like,

00:50:38.220 okay, I've explained why you don't accept that, but that's the answer. And, uh, and this is it now

00:50:46.560 because I said so. So it's, it's also important for kids to hear that sometimes as well, because

00:50:51.020 they have to be able, they have to respect your authority, even if they don't agree with it or

00:50:58.000 fully understand why you're saying that. So you tell them not to run in the street. You can explain

00:51:03.180 why, but if they choose to, you know, if that, if that, if that answer doesn't resonate with them,

00:51:08.280 or they still don't understand what still don't go on the street. You have to trust that I have your

00:51:13.500 best interests in mind. And, uh, even if you don't understand it, you have to have that kind

00:51:17.700 of relationship with your kids. If you don't, then it all kind of breaks down. Companies are

00:51:22.080 strong arming their customers to support abortion, canceling customers for their political views and 0.73

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00:53:26.780 Today for our daily cancellation, we turn belatedly to a story that unfolded last week, but which

00:53:35.780 must not escape the wrath of the daily cancellation. It's just too perfect. The segment was made for

00:53:40.640 cases like this. This is the story of Elizabeth Gilbert, who's the author of the 2006 hit memoir

00:53:46.360 Eat, Pray, Love, which chronicles her mission to find herself and discover the deeper truths of life

00:53:52.580 after her divorce. Now, like any vapid, self-absorbed, upper-middle-class woman, she does 0.96

00:53:57.740 this by going on vacation. For whatever reason, lots of other women at the time were deeply interested

00:54:03.180 in reading this lady's travel blog about her experiences as a tourist in various tropical

00:54:07.720 locations. As we all know, there are generally two kinds of stories that are always sure to be

00:54:12.320 incredibly boring and trite. There are dream stories, because your dreams are never interesting

00:54:17.320 to anyone but you. And then there are stories about cliched epiphanies that you had while on

00:54:21.760 vacation. And those are never interesting either, because no, your vacation was not life-changing.

00:54:28.100 You were you when you left for vacation, and you were you the whole time you were on vacation,

00:54:33.220 and you return as you, the same person that you were before, unfortunately. Your Jamaican cruise

00:54:38.260 isn't going to change that. As it happens, shallow liberal women are especially inclined to tell both 1.00

00:54:43.360 types of stories, and this was a book devoted to one of them. She probably also talked about her

00:54:48.000 dreams in the book, though I can't say for sure. But now, somehow, nearly 20 years later, Elizabeth

00:54:53.080 Gilbert is the author of something even more embarrassing than Eat, Pray, Love. This new work

00:54:57.380 may be called Eat, Pray, Cower Like a Scared Puppy, because indeed, Gilbert is now responsible 0.97

00:55:02.820 for what might be the most pathetic and humiliating surrender of all time. I mean, she makes France and 0.96

00:55:10.000 World War II look stalwart by comparison. This is truly one for the record books. And I say this only a

00:55:16.340 couple of weeks after Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass groveled to the LGBT cult, like we talked 0.98

00:55:20.700 about, begging their forgiveness for committing the crime of thinking for himself. And then a few

00:55:25.280 days later, he was cut from the team anyway. And that was humiliating. That was disgraceful. That

00:55:29.480 was an absolute master class in self-flagellation. Anthony Bass has a PhD in be-clowning himself,

00:55:36.220 but it still pales in comparison to this. Two weeks ago, Elizabeth Gilbert excitedly announced

00:55:41.840 her new book. Now, surprisingly, it's not another memoir detailing her weekend trip to Myrtle Beach

00:55:47.480 and all the deep insights into the mysteries of the universe that she picked up along the way.

00:55:52.120 Instead, this is a novel set in the mid-20th century in Siberia. And it centers around a

00:55:58.420 group of people who resisted the Soviet government. And she says, try to defend nature against

00:56:03.200 industrialization, whatever that means. It's called the Snow Forest because it takes place in a forest

00:56:08.360 in the snow. That's how she came up with the title. Gilbert has never been known for creative

00:56:12.740 titles. As for whatever else might happen in the book, I will personally never find out because I

00:56:18.160 would never read an Elizabeth Gilbert book. And second, nobody will find out because nobody will

00:56:23.400 read this particular book. She has retracted it. She has retracted the entire book, pulled it from

00:56:29.140 publication. And she's done this because some people were offended that the novel is set in Russia.

00:56:35.280 They are offended that her fiction novel about mid-20th century freedom fighters in Siberia

00:56:41.720 takes place in Russia. And she is responding to these complaints by junking the book that she had

00:56:48.640 spent the last many months writing. Here she is explaining that decision. Listen.

00:56:55.520 Hi, everybody. It's Liz. And I have an announcement to make. So last week, I announced the upcoming

00:57:04.300 publication of my most recent novel, a book called The Snow Forest, that was set in the middle of

00:57:09.760 Siberia in the middle of the last century and told the story of a group of individuals who made a

00:57:15.240 decision to remove themselves from society, to resist the Soviet government and to try to defend nature

00:57:22.300 against industrialization. But over the course of this weekend, I have received an enormous, massive

00:57:30.700 outpouring of reactions and responses from my Ukrainian readers expressing anger, sorrow,

00:57:39.980 disappointment, and pain about the fact that I would choose to release a book into the world right now,

00:57:47.500 any book, no matter what the subject of it is, that is set in Russia. And I want to say that I have heard

00:57:54.300 these messages and read these messages and I respect them. And as a result, I'm making a course correction

00:58:01.340 and I'm removing the book from its publication schedule. It is not the time for this book to be

00:58:06.380 published. And I do not want to add any harm to a group of people who have already experienced and who

00:58:18.780 are all continuing to experience grievous and extreme harm. So that is the choice that I have

00:58:26.460 made. And I've got other book projects that I'm working on and I've made a decision to turn my

00:58:31.900 attention to working on those now. So I just wanted to let everybody know that. And thank you very much.

00:58:37.020 Great. She has other book projects she's working on, she says. Hopefully, before completing those

00:58:43.100 other books, she will gather together a group of gay, trans, disabled, polysexual, queer, lesbian

00:58:49.100 Ukrainians and get clearance for every character, theme, plot point, setting in the book. She must make 1.00

00:58:56.380 sure that it all passes muster, especially with the poor folks of Ukraine who we're told are in a war

00:59:01.420 for their very existence and yet still have the time and energy to get offended by a book from the

00:59:05.900 Eat, Pray, Love Woman. Offended because it simply is set in Russia, which is the possibly the dumbest 0.99

00:59:12.860 reason that anyone has ever been offended by anything. Not just offended, she says. They are 0.91

00:59:18.460 burdened. The book is a burden to them somehow. It is a cross that they must carry. Now, Gilbert does

00:59:25.500 the familiar song and dance here. She says that the motivations and intentions of the person causing

00:59:30.700 offense, her in this case, don't matter. Context doesn't matter. Obviously, she wasn't trying to 0.98

00:59:37.020 offend her Ukrainian readers, who are apparently the most fragile and shallow people to ever walk 1.00

00:59:41.580 the earth. She wasn't trying to paint Russia in a good light, God forbid. She's well aware that she's

00:59:48.300 supposed to hate the whole country and anyone who's ever lived there. She's aware that being Russian is a 1.00

00:59:53.100 character flaw these days. But this book doesn't contradict that bigotry. In fact, the Russian 0.98

00:59:58.460 government, the Soviet government, are rightly the bad guys in this book, given that it takes place 0.97

01:00:03.780 during the Soviet Union era. And yet, the very mention of the country was too much to bear.

01:00:11.180 There is no coherent reason for the mob to be offended, but they are. Her actions became offensive

01:00:17.080 the moment the mob decided that they were going to be offended. And their emotions must not be

01:00:22.340 questions. Their demand, their demands must not be scrutinized. She must simply bow to them

01:00:28.020 unthinkingly and in fear. This is always how it works with the outrage mob. They are the authorities

01:00:34.140 on your own actions. They get to decide what you were thinking, what you intended. They get to make

01:00:41.220 totally arbitrary rules governing both your thoughts and your actions. And this week, they decided to make

01:00:47.280 the rule that you aren't allowed to write a book set in Russia, no matter the actual subject or point

01:00:53.040 of the book. This kind of arbitrary rulemaking, by the way, is destroying the book publishing industry

01:00:59.000 in this country, just as it's destroying the film industry. Speaking of which, just in the last few

01:01:04.700 weeks, we've seen two big budget films from major movie studios fall on their faces at the box office.

01:01:10.960 The Pixar film Elemental and the superhero movie The Flash were both duds. Despite the fact that Pixar films and

01:01:16.800 superhero films as a category were once surefire successes. And there are a lot of reasons why

01:01:22.440 people don't care about these movies anymore. Partly, it's pure exhaustion from the same stories

01:01:26.760 and themes being recycled a million times. Partly, it's the wokeness. That Pixar film had the first

01:01:31.960 quote-unquote non-binary character in the Pixar universe. Partly, it's the fact that the actual

01:01:36.760 quality of these films, from the acting to the writing, even to the special effects, has declined

01:01:41.860 tremendously. I saw one scene from The Flash that looked like a PlayStation game in 2002.

01:01:48.240 But underlying all of these problems is the basic fact that movies aren't allowed to just tell a

01:01:54.560 story anymore. The same goes for books. If you tell a story through whatever medium, you are presenting

01:02:01.020 a certain point of view and a certain world that you have created with characters that have certain

01:02:06.840 personality traits and do certain things and say certain things. And this all requires you to make

01:02:12.660 choices as a storyteller. It means that you're choosing to tell the story one way and not another.

01:02:18.600 And you're putting forward one point of view instead of another. And you have these characters

01:02:22.360 doing this instead of different characters doing something else. And all of these choices

01:02:27.140 are sure to offend one interest group or another. There's always going to be some group left out or

01:02:32.980 underrepresented or represented in a way that they find offensive or traumatic, etc., and so forth.

01:02:37.460 The nitpicking, the offense-taking, the pathological persecution complex that so many people carry

01:02:43.940 around every day. All of this has made storytelling impossible. It has killed stories and created the

01:02:50.820 first society in human history with no story to tell. Of course, there is a way around this. There is a

01:02:56.900 solution. All of these rules and demands from the outraged masses, they don't have to mean anything.

01:03:01.880 They don't have to carry any weight. You do have the option of simply ignoring all of this.

01:03:09.480 When they decree a new rule that they invented in their imaginations this morning, you can always

01:03:14.300 respond by telling them to piss off and then continuing to proceed to do whatever it is that 0.54

01:03:19.040 you were going to do anyway. When they say that they're burdened and they're hurt and deeply wounded

01:03:25.360 and traumatized by some innocuous thing or statement or plot theme or storytelling choice, 0.99

01:03:31.360 you do have the option of laughing in their pathetic, manipulative faces. Gilbert could have doubled down 0.99

01:03:38.020 and issued a statement announcing that she'll now be writing a whole series of books set in Russia 0.96

01:03:42.320 and Putin will be the hero, just to spite all of these weepy little clowns. 0.54

01:03:47.260 But if she didn't want to commit to a new series of books simply out of spite, which I guess would be 1.00

01:03:52.460 understandable, then she could have at least told them all to kiss her ass in so many words. 0.99

01:03:56.880 That was an option. It's always an option when facing the outrage mob. The middle finger option, 1.00

01:04:02.800 we might call it. The option we should all be choosing when confronted by these people.

01:04:08.620 Certainly the only option that will rescue the film industry and the book publishing industry from

01:04:12.320 Annihilation. But Gilbert didn't choose that option. She decided to debase herself and throw out her own 0.98

01:04:19.040 work, months of effort, to appease a bunch of dumb, soulless crybabies. She chose not to offend, 1.00

01:04:27.580 even though offending these people is not only okay, but a virtue. It is the virtuous path.

01:04:34.760 She chose the unvirtuous path. And for that reason, Elizabeth Gilbert is today canceled.

01:04:43.700 That'll do it for this portion of shows. I move over to the members block. You become a member

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01:04:50.040 there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - June 21, 2023

Ep. 1182 - How All Of Our Core Institutions Lit Their Own Credibility On Fire

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